Parting Gifts by Gerald Hall

Author:Gerald Hall [Hall, Gerald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-11-30T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty Eight:

Ohio 14th Militia Company Headquarters

Ashley, Ohio

April 2, 2048

“We are going to need some more support from the air if we are going to be able to stop the jihadists that have crossed the Mississippi. I know that the Air Force has been operating their fighters from makeshift airbases and using sections of the interstate as runways since those ballistic missiles trashed the regular runways. But there just aren’t enough fighter-bombers left to provide the Guard and the militias with adequate air support.” Wayne Talbot asked. Wayne had been an architect working in Columbus but living near Ashley prior to the nuclear autumn. Now, Wayne was one of the platoon leaders of the Ashley militia because he had been involved in ROTC while attending Ohio State University.

“I understand your frustration. However, we may have some relief on that front in the near future. Do you remember all of the rumors of hidden weapons depots that were created during the First Event?” Jeff asked.

“Sure. But I thought that the Federal Government had taken control of all of the military equipment that appeared then and sent the materiel into storage elsewhere.”

“Well, they did with most of it. But the governor of Ohio claimed some of it for the National Guard and kept it. It appears that there were a few hidden sites that the state either didn’t know about or kept their discovery quiet. A lot of the Army stuff was discovered either at Ravenna Arsenal or inside of old mining tunnels scattered throughout the state of Ohio.”

“Someone found another one of those depots?”

“It seems so. What they found inside was perhaps even more interesting, I was told by someone from the Ohio National Guard recently.”

“What did they find and how will it help us?”

“Someone at the state house ran across some documents from former governor Blackmon’s administration. He had asked the State Bureau of Investigation and the State Highway Patrol to quietly look for any additional caches of equipment after the First Event. Most of them were found pretty quickly and made public because the governor wanted to make the equipment available for use with the National Guard here in Ohio. That equipment was pretty much standard to what the Guard was using or at least was close enough that it could be integrated without much of a problem.

But there were a couple of sites that the State boys found that were a bit more ‘exotic’. I guess that whoever was responsible for the First Event had quite the imagination. He had created some weapons or vehicles that were quite unique. Unfortunately, they couldn’t be added to the existing equipment of the Ohio Guard without causing a lot of headaches for the logistics people here.”

Jeff didn’t mention that he actually knew the person who was responsible for the First Event. It might have led to awkward questions that could have led to Stewart William’s daughter Deborah being identified. But Jeff continued to talk about what was found at the site.

“One of these sites was inside of an old coal mine tunnel whose entrance had been partially collapsed.

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